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At Least 34 Kalumbila Women Trained In Organic Farming

BY Wells Chifunda

Kalumbila District of North- Western Province have received training in organic farming using local materials such as pesticides to produce compost manure and Bocachi Manure.

Save the Environment and People Agency Project Manager, David Kalolu says the Agecy is is putting up water boreholes to support drip irrigation Technology in Matebi area so that water is available to women involved in gardening and to benefit the entire community.

Kalolu says the produce will be consumed by them and their families so that they boost their immunity and Sale the surplus to their communities around the farm, supply to mining companies and to the neighboring countries such Congo DR and Namibia.

The SEPA project is being scaled up by Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints in Chief Matebo of Kalumbila District.

07.10.2022

REA Gets Increased Allocation In The 2023 National Budget

By Wells Chifunda

Rural Electrification Authority chief executive officer Linus Chanda has thanked the new dawn government for doubling the allocation to the authority in the 2023 national budget to above K740 million from about K360 million in 2022.

Engineer Chanda says for the first time REA has got the budgetary allocation that is so close to what is required to have been the annual budget for REA to achieve 51 percent of rural electrification by 2031.

Speaking in an interview in the Chifunabuli district of Luapula province, Engineer Chanda says the 2023 allocation to REA is remarkable and historical and has shown the government's commitment to electrifying rural areas.

07.10.2022